Re: Obtaining sources behind a firewall

[marco atzeri]

On 2/27/2012 4:25 PM, Sree wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'd like to contribute to the Octave project - I'm a rookie c++
> programmer. So I was trying to get the sources - but I'm behind a
> highly restrictive firewall - so while hg clone works, the git
> subclone for gnulib fails because it uses the git:// protocol. [ Only
> port 80 and 443 works for me  ]
>
> I can clone gnulib separately by using
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/gnulib.git. Is there something that I
> can do?

basic workaround

modify  build-aux/bootstrap   replacing
 git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib
with
 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/gnulib.git

> Also, could someone point me to resources from where I can get started?
>
> TIA

some documentation
http://octave.sourceforge.net/docs.html

I suggest to start looking at the open bugs, to be familiar
with the internal of octave.

Regards
Marco